Savin Hill

The Dorchester Reporter details some of the attacks, including one last week by two teens of a father walking with his kids near the Boys and Girls Club.

AlertNewEngland reports Boston, Transit and State Police are flooding Savin Hill looking for two men who got into a fight with police, dropped a gun, then fled.

State Police even sent in their helicopter to add in the search for the two men, both described as black and about 6 feet tall, one wearing a red coat with gray sweatpants, the other a white shirt and jeans. Both are considered armed and dangerous.

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man for two attacks on women early Sunday and say he is a suspect in a third.

Walter Mains, 31, is scheduled for arraignment in Dorchester District Court for threatening a woman with a gun and attempting to rape her around 3 a.m. at Harbor View Street and Dorchester Avenue, and for approaching a woman but then running off around 1:40 a.m. on Savin Hill Avenue, police said, adding Mains is also a suspect in a rape around 2 a.m. on Savin Hill Avenue near the Red Line station:

The investigation is currently ongoing and addition charges will likely follow. Police are in the process of applying for multiple search warrants and also awaiting results from physical evidence recovered at the scene.

The Dorchester Reporter reports Mains was out on bail for a 2009 sexual attack in Dudley Square.

Innocent, etc.

Boat fire off Savin Hill. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a man, 58, and his son were working on their sailboat's motor in Dorchester Bay when it exploded around 5:10 p.m. Saturday.

The man suffered burns; boaters from the Savin Hill Yacht Club rushed out to the boat, moored about 200 yards off shore, to rescue the two.

The plume of black smoke was visible from the Fenway.

The Dorchester Reporter talks to eyewitnesses and posts a photo of a fireboat at the scene. Another view of the fire, by gdoerre1.